Bell Details and Weights

In 1903 the five old bells which had been unrung for about a hundred years were augmented to eight. Bells one two and three were new, and the fifth bell was re-cast. In 1967 all eight bells were re-cast and two new bells added. The 1903 wooden frame, made by Day of Eye, was lowered fourteen feet in 1967 and extended to accommodate the extra bells.

(Key : (M) indicates the mark of the Whitechapel Bellfoundry, and (B) the mark of the Norwich Foundry.)

Tenor 26-2-02 D+2 588Hz

Tuning:

Notes shown as note +/- cents with nominal frequency in Hertz. The tuning scheme is a modified ‘Just’ tuning with perfect fourths and fifths. With thanks to Nigel Taylor of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry for supplying the figures from the Foundry’s records.

Weights:

For those unfamiliar with imperial weights, 1 hundredweight (cwt) is 112 pounds (lb) or 4 quarters (qtr). 1 qtr is therefore 28 lb. 20cwt=1 ton, and an imperial ton is approximately the same as a metric tonne. The smallest bells in the tower are therefore about a quarter of a ton in weight, and the largest is over one and a quarter tons, or about the same as a medium-sized family car.